Quotes About Half-grown

It was a half-grown puppy with long legs and a long tail, belonging to no one species, but generously distributing itself among about six.

Marlinspike goes down to the kitchen, to grow stout and live out his beastly nature. There is a summer ahead, though he cannot imagine its pleasures; sometimes when he's walking in the garden he sees him, a half-grown cat, lolling watchful in an apple tree, or snoring on a wall in the sun.